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181 " Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. "
― John Piper , A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God
182 " Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him? "
― John Piper , A Hunger for God
183 " Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought. "
― John Piper , When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy
184 " God is most glorified when you are most satisfied in Him. "
― John Piper , Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
185 " Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness. "
― John Piper , Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions
186 " Christians do not just go to work. They go to work "with God". They do not just do a job. They do their job "with God". "
― John Piper , Don't Waste Your Life
187 " To make them feel good about themselves when they were made to feel good about seeing God is like taking someone to the Alps and locking them in a room full of mirrors. "
188 " At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. "
189 " But it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of monastic withdrawal into the fasting and prayer of passive waiting. That is not what the awakening of desire for Christ would produce. It would produce a radical, new commitment to complete the task of world evangelization, no matter what the cost. And fasting would not become a pacifistic discipline for private hopes, but a fearsome missionary weapon in the fight of faith. "
190 " When you are deeply peaceful and confident that, because of Christ, God will bring you safely to his eternal kingdom and be the all-satisfying Treasure of your life forever, then you are free to see the truth, and love the truth, and speak the truth no matter what, and joyfully spread a passion for the truth whose name is Jesus. "
― John Piper , Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God
191 " Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally. "
― John Piper , Jesus: The Only Way to God: Must You Hear the Gospel to Be Saved?
192 " ...all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10). "
193 " God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about him. Indeed the devil thinks more true thoughts about God in one day than a saint does in a lifetime, and God is not honored by it. The problem with the devil is not his theology, but his desires. Our chief end is to glorify God, the great Object. We do so most fully when we treasure him, desire him, delight in him so supremely that we let goods and kindred go and display his love to the poor and the lost. "
194 " Racial and ethnic segragtion is a gospel issue! Cephas' fear and wihdrawal from fellowship across ethnic lines was "not in step with the truth of the gospel." Christ had died to tear down this wall. "
― John Piper , The Passion of Jesus Christ
195 " The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing. "
196 " Thus, when Paul says, "Praise the Lord all you nations, and let all the peoples extol him" (Rom. 15:11), he is saying that there is something about God that is so universally praiseworthy and so profoundly beautiful and so comprehensively worth and so deeply satisfying that God will find passionate admirers in every diverse people group in the world. His true greatness will be manifest in the breadth of the diversity of those who perceive and cherish his beauty. His excellence will be shown to be higher and deeper than the parochial preferences that make us happy most of the time. His appeal will be to the deepest, highest, largest capacities of the human soul. Thus, the diversity of the source of admiration will testify to his incomparable glory. "
197 " God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God. "
198 " On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. "
199 " The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God simply doesn't come through for who he is. He is unwittingly belittled. For those who are stunned by the indescribable magnitude of what God has made, not to mention the infinite greatness of the One who made it, the steady diet on Sunday morning of practical how-to's and psychological soothing and relational therapy and tactical planning seem dramatically out of touch with Reality - the God of overwhelming greatness. "
200 " God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ. "
― John Piper , Sex and the Supremacy of Christ